You don’t have to kick the game to do a death save. On new sterns just hold up your left flipper and nudge the game left to right at the right time and the ball pops back up. It’s way too easy and can be done without tilting even with the tilt bob set fairly tight. The faster the ball goes down the right out lane the less nudging you need to do. I learned to do them just for fun but quickly found out it makes the games too easy. I wonder why they stopped putting those metal guides below the flippers that would stop that from happening or at least make it much more difficult.